US Army Reserve Colonel Janis Karpinski , former US commander of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , said Friday that the US military has done little to ensure that abuses first exposed by the Abu Ghraib...

Government officials in the United Kingdom are rethinking plans to enact a new law that would criminalize the act of "glorifying terrorism." In an interview Thursday with BBC's Today program, Prime Minister...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon issue arrest warrants for leaders of the Uganda rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , according to statements from a UN official Thursday. The LRA leaders, who have taken...

ACLU, et al. v. DOD, et al., Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, United States District Court Southern District of New York, September 29, 2005 [ruling under the Freedom of Information Act, ordering the release of additional photographs and videotapes of detainee...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday followed through on his promise to veto the gay marriage bill passed by the California Assembly earlier this month. In a veto statement issued late Thursday...

AP is reporting that New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been released from federal prison after agreeing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity, according to legal sources. Her...

Trial preparations commenced Thursday in federal court in Houston for the first federal civil trial involving the Merck-manufactured Vioxx painkiller. Earlier this month, New Orleans-based US District Judge Eldon Fallon, charged with managing the hundreds of...

The White House said Thursday that President Bush will probably wait until next week to announce his next nominee to the US Supreme Court. Bush was earlier expected to announce his nominee to replace retiring Justice Sandra...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously Thursday that provincial governments can pass laws to recover health care costs incurred in taking care of people sickened by smoking. Canadian tobacco companies had challenged the constitutionality of...

The US House of Representatives Thursday approved by 229-193 legislation that would overhaul the 1973 Endangered Species Act . Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) steered the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005 (TESRA) ...